"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will print its final edition on Dec. 31, closing a 157-year chapter even as the newsroom doubles down on a digital future.
But inside and around the venerable institution, another story is unfolding: a chorus of veterans who built the paper — on copy desks and carrier routes, in pressrooms, bureaus and features sections — pausing to say goodbye to the thud on the lawn, the rumble of the presses, the ink that smudged fingers and white linen blouses."
Nov 15, 2025
Finebaum "very close" to deciding about leaving ESPN to run for the U.S. Senate Seat.
ANOTHER sports guy who believes he is qualified to become a U.S. Senator????????
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Trump pardons Jan. 6 defendant who remained in prison on separate firearms charge
By
/ CBS News
President Trump has issued a second pardon to a January 6 defendant who remained imprisoned on separate gun offenses, leading to his release on Friday.
Dan Wilson was one of the supporters of Mr. Trump who breached the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Justice Department said in a 2024 news release that Wilson was a militia member who entered the building in a gas mask.
He
pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to impede or injure a federal
officer in May 2024 and was sentenced to five years in prison.
He was pardoned on that charge in January 2025 when Mr. Trump granted clemency for about 1,500 January 6 defendants.
Despite
the pardon, Wilson remained incarcerated. Authorities had searched his
home in June 2022 as part of their investigation into his presence at
the Capitol.
They recovered "numerous firearms and ammunition," the Justice
Department said, which he was forbidden from possessing because of
previous felony convictions.
Wilson pled guilty to a charge of
possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and a charge of
possession of an unregistered firearm, and was set to remain in prison
until 2028.
A White House official told CBS News that Mr. Trump
was pardoning Wilson because the home search that led to the discovery
of the firearms was part of the investigation into Wilson's January 6
charges.
Wilson's pardon, reviewed by CBS News, was dated to
Friday. He was released from prison on Friday evening, his lawyer George
Pallas told the Associated Press.
"For too long, my client has been held as a political prisoner by a
government that criminalized dissent," Pallas said in a statement to CBS
News. "President Trump's pardon rights this wrong and sends a clear
message that peaceful Americans will not be persecuted for their
beliefs. Mr. Wilson is innocent, he has always been innocent, and this
pardon proves it."
Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.
Jon Cherry / Getty Images
Wilson
planned to participate in the riot at the Capitol for weeks, according
to the Justice Department's 2024 news release, and occasionally
discussed bringing firearms. He ultimately arrived unarmed.
Throughout
the day, he provided information in messaging channels about where
people needed support as they worked to enter the Capitol, the Justice
Department said. He also spoke to other members of far-right groups,
including the Oath Keepers.
The
Justice Department initially argued that Trump's pardons did not extend
to Wilson's gun charges, but later changed its position, saying that it
had received "further clarity on the intent of the Presidential
Pardon."
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich,
who oversaw Wilson's case and was nominated by Mr. Trump during his
first term, criticized the move and called efforts to extend the pardon
to cover offenses discovered in the course of the investigations
"extraordinary," according to the Associated Press.
Mr. Trump
also pardoned Suzanne Kaye, a Florida woman who was sentenced to 18
months in prison for threatening to shoot FBI agents. Kaye was
questioned by FBI agents after saying online that she had been at the
U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to CBS Miami. When contacted by agents, Kaye denied she had been there, but still agreed to speak with them at her home.
In her video, posted to multiple platforms after that conversation
but before her interview, Kaye said she would not talk to the FBI
without a lawyer and that she would "my second amendment right to shoot
your f------ ass if you come here," according to CBIS Miami. A White
House official described Kaye's comments as "voicing her displeasure
with the FBI using curt language," and said that it was "clearly a case
of disfavored First Amendment political speech being prosecuted and an
excessive sentence."
Emma Nicholson,
Zak Hudak and
Scott MacFarlane
contributed to this report.
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"We had created in this moment a very brand new thing called a citizen,
and this has had powerful effects," he said. "It's going to set in
motion revolutions for the next two plus centuries, all around the
world, all attempting to sort of give a new expression to this idea that
all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights, and that's a big, big deal in world
history."
The
largest mass execution in Alabama history may have been Nov. 11, 1825.
On that day, six Native Americans, including Tuscoona Fixico, Dancing
Rabbit, Chilancha and three others not identified, were hanged for
murder.
In his book "The Second Creek War," writer John H. Ellison states Tuscoona Fixico led rebel warriors in a series of ambushes intended to isolate Fort Wilson.
A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office
A
Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that the
president spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes
open at a recent event.
"Tuesday was a Democratic victory. And the party didn’t just win — it won
by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play. In polls, in
focus groups and now at the ballot box, the public is telling us
something very clearly: Trump is simply too much. If this is an
opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it
is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire
identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago. "
“...were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government
without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not
hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. but I should mean that every man
should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.”
Of course, Jefferson said that in 1787, years after the country was founded, and centuries before a mass media came to exist. I wonder if he would still believe that today, with mass media so prevalent?
Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover
Nearly
nine months into the president’s oversight, sales for orchestra,
theater and dance performances are the worst they’ve been since the
pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
25th Anniversary of the last time ALL of humankind was alone...on Earth.
On October 31, 2000, a momentous event marked a turning point in humanity’s presence in space. That day, the Soyuz TM-31 capsule launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying three astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew included Bill Shepherd, a NASA astronaut, and Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko, cosmonauts from Roscosmos. Their mission, Expedition One, would begin a continuous human presence in orbit—a milestone that remains in place nearly 25 years later.
"More than nine
months into his second term, the only thing predictable about Mr.
Trump’s handling of global affairs is that it will be an unpredictable
mix of instinct, grievance and ego. And there is little evidence that
his tantrums, swerves and reversals are strategic and thought-out, as
his supporters sometimes insist, rather than the products of
impulsivity, mood and circumstance.
Either
way, foreign leaders and ambassadors know to remain wary at all times,
with one saying the other day that he enters the Oval Office with the
kind of caution needed if there were sticks of unexploded dynamite under
the couch cushions."
"Collectively, public radio stations are corralling listeners’ attention to Public Radio Music Day
on Oct. 29, an attempt to raise crucial funds as well as awareness of
the breadth of “non-commercial” music broadcast by public radio, such as
classical, jazz, blues and bluegrass. The loss of public stations could
be considered akin to the closure of a boundless museum of American
music."
“…staffers
were taken aback the next morning, when [Mark] Thompson suggested
during the daily network editorial call that it should ease up on
covering Trump’s East Wing demolition, claiming that their viewership
isn’t all that interested in the story, according to two people familiar
with the matter.”
